Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 2.djvu/784

 94 STAT. 2062

PUBLIC LAW 96-464—OCT. 17, 1980

able coastal-dependent economic growth containing a detailed and comprehensive statement of policies; standards and criteria to guide public and private uses of lands and waters; and mechanisms for timely implementation in specific geographic areas within the coastal zone."; and (5) by redesignating paragraph (17) (as redesignated by paragraph (1) of this section) as paragraph (18). SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATIVE GRANTS.

16 USC 1454.

Ante, p. 2060.

Post, p. 2063.

Regulations. l^iY^^ ^^^^ note.

(a) Section 306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1455) is amended— (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: "(a) The Secretary may make grants to any coastal state for not more than 80 per centum of the costs of administering such state's management program if the Secretary— "(1) finds that such program meets the requirements of section 305(b);

"(2) approves such program in accordance with subsections (c), (d), and (e); and "(3) finds, if such program has been administered with financial assistance under this section for at least one year, that the coastal state will expend as increasing proportion of each grant received under this section (but not more than 30 per centum of the grant unless the state chooses to expend a higher percentage) on activities that will result in significant improvement being made in achieving the coastal management objectives specified in section 303(2)(A) through (I). For purposes of this subsection, the costs of administering a management program includes costs incurred in the carrying out, in a manner consistent with the procedures and processes specified therein, of projects and other activities (other than those of a kind referred to in clauses (A), (B), or (C) of section 306A(c)(2)) that are necessary or appropriate to the implementation of the management program."; (2) by striking out the first proviso to subsection (b) and by striking out "further" in the second proviso to such subsection; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(i) The coastal states are encouraged to provide in their management programs for— "(A) the inventory and designation of areas that contain one or more coastal resources of national significance; and "(B) specific and enforceable standards to protect such resources. If the Secretary determines that a coastal state has failed to make satisfactory progress in the activities described in this subsection by September 30, 1984, the Secretary shall not make any grants to such state provided under section 306A after such date.". (b) The amendments made by subsection (a)(1) and (2) of this section apply with respect to grants made after September 30, 1980, under section 306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 and, within two hundred and seventy days after such date, the Secretary of Commerce shall issue regulations relating to the administration of subsection (a) of such section 306 (as so amended by such subsection (a)(1)). SEC. 6. COASTAL RESOURCE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

The Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 is further amended by adding inimediately after section 306 the following new section:

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